End of Life Exercise Paper

Overview

Nurses sometimes work with individuals at the end of their life. This can be difficult for nurses, many of whom hope to help individuals recover. This exercise is intended to help nurses better prepare themselves to engage in care at the end of life. This exercise is divided into four parts. Be sure to complete each one.

Tasks

Part 1

• In 250500 words, reflect on how prepared you felt to give care to individuals at the of life before you began this class.
• Explain why you felt that way.
• If specific forms of care or specific procedures at the end of life are more difficult for you than others, focus on those.

Part 2

• In 7501000 words, use the readings, eLessons, and other material from this module to articulate the moral issues at stake in the areas you feel would be most difficult for you in end-of-life care.
• Engage at least one eLesson and two readings. Failure to do so will result in your assignment being returned ungraded.
• If this portion of the assignment is not met, your exercise will receive a zero.
• Quotations are welcome, but not required.

Part 3

• In 5001000 words, explain your moral stance using appropriate terminology.

Part 4

• Explain how your understanding of the nursing profession and your understanding of end-of-life issues can help you feel more comfortable providing care.

For this paper, engage two or more additional readings at the end of the assigned chapter 10. To be clear, the additional readings are found on p. 568-625. Pick two or more of those and specify them by specific author name, not Vaughn. I want to know where you’re pulling from. I want you to know how the assignment is weighted. It has four parts: 10-30-30-30. So, go light on the first section. It’s only 10% of the paper grade. Go deeper on part 4, provide 500+ words for just that section is suggested. The instructions make it appear otherwise.

This paper is double-spaced.

Part 2 refers to the additional readings in Vaughn, Chapter 10, p. 568-628.

REFERENCES

Use this eLesson for this paper: Concordia University Irvine. (n.d.). eLesson: Refusing Treatment and Withdrawing Life Support. https://resources.cui.edu/courses/hlmg467/modules/3A/story.html

And pick three readings from Chapter 10 pages 568-625 of this book: Vaughn, L. (2023). Bioethics: Principles, issues, and cases (5th ed., pp. 551564). Oxford University Press.